FinOps Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

FinOps
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring FinOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 66 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing FinOps 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.44% 0.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £424 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £498 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £375 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

FinOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 781 661 1,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.59% 85.84% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 414 752
10th Percentile £289 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £608
90th Percentile £652 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 16
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.30 £19.19 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +35.12% -3.08%
75th Percentile £46.56 £37.50 £24.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.04
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.63 £18.07 £21.31
% change year-on-year +30.80% -15.22% +12.16%

FinOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FinOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

FinOps job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

FinOps
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing FinOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing FinOps

FinOps
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FinOps in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FinOps in West Yorkshire

FinOps
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FinOps within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -10 3 £445 - 3
Wakefield - 1 £475 - 1
FinOps
Yorkshire

FinOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Kong
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk